Who wouldn’t want to avail of great discount offers when using your credit cards?! Now, there’s another option when you dine out and use your Citi Credit Cards because they recently tied up with Booky – your offline restaurant finder! Cool, right!
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The most awaited installment offer is back from the country’s largest foreign bank. Time to flash your Citi credit card and enjoy 0% interest on installment plans, plus you can pay 3 months later!
Calling all Citi Rewards Card holders! Take advantage and enjoy more benefits per liter when you gas up at any Shell station!
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Virtus Awards 2016 Winners
Winners for the recent Virtus Awards 2016 has been announced last November 15th at the Novotel Manila hotel. It’s a prestigious award giving body launched to honor hotel sales and resorts marketing practitioners with excellent track records of success. A total of 4 awards—3 individual and 1 team award—were handed out to deserving hotel sales and marketing people, whose efforts shone exceptionally well amid stiff competition from other finalists.
A company that started as a small fish cannery enterprise in far-flung Mindanao has just been named Asia’s Marketing Company of the Year, a recognition from the Asia Marketing Excellence Award which considered the highest marketing award given to deserving corporations in Asia for their outstanding and trailblazing efforts in marketing products and services.
Century Pacific Food, Inc. (CPFI), represented by its CEO Chris Po and General Manager Greg Banzon, received the esteemed recognition in a highly anticipated awards ceremony held in South Korea. The award is a first for the Philippines and definitely a major feat for CPFI, a company whose brands and products dominate the canned food market in the Philippines, outshone 39 entries from 9 Asian countries.
By year end, 8,000 more Filipinos will join Alorica, starting their careers at the world’s largest customer experience provider serving the U.S. market, and third largest in the world. Headquartered in Irvine, California, Alorica currently has 92,000 team members worldwide and takes pride in its 30,500 employees in 17 office locations across the Philippines. The company’s overall success is driving this local hiring initiative.
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Citi Philippines Voice Biometrics
Country’s largest foreign bank launches Voice Biometrics in the Philippines; first bank to roll out this groundbreaking authentication across Asia.
Citi Philippines CEO Aftab Ahmed and Consumer Banking Head Bea Tan introduced this groundbreaking technology to the Philippines. With this launch, Citi’s more than 1 million clients in the country can now enrol in Voice Biometrics and let their voices be the means for authentication of their phone banking transactions.
With increasing tuition fees and extended years of basic education, having an education plan has become even more relevant nowadays. Many parents who have made a decision decades ago to invest in a good education plan for their children, are now reaping the fruits of their hard-earned savings, thanks to Philam Life.
In May of 2016, 50,000 scholars received their education payout for the 1st semester of SY 2016-2017. This second semester, Philam Life released over 51,000 education benefit payouts to policy owners. Most of the benefit payouts were made through CTA (credit to account) as part of the company’s “ease of doing business” drive to ensure policyholders receive their benefit payments in a fast and convenient manner.
For someone like me who works online and earns in US Dollars, the steady rise of USD exchange rate to Philippine Peso is a great news! Whereas in the local market, investors are now looking at US Dollar-denominated investments to help offset local volatility and achieve good returns.
Coinciding with market uncertainty associated with an election year, the Philippine Peso itself has been underperforming since mid-April. At present, the domestic currency is hovering around the P47:USD1 level, making its 1.9 percent depreciation the third – highest in Asia after the Chinese Yuan’s 2.3 percent and Malaysian Ringgit’s 4 percent.
HCCA International and HCCA Health Connections (collectively known as HCCA) have consolidated all of their business operations under the Shearwater Health name.
